Civil Society Response to EITI Chair Fredrik Reinfeldt’s May 30 Statement
Inaction by the Board equates to a vote of no-confidence in the spirit and letter of the EITI Standard itself.
Inaction by the Board equates to a vote of no-confidence in the spirit and letter of the EITI Standard itself.
The statement was published on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative website on May 30, 2018.
This page serves as a public record of the background and evidence of the civil society complaint, as well as how the grievance process is being executed by the EITI Secretariat.
From its founding, the EITI and its Standard have required comprehensive disclosure of material payments from companies to governments, including taxes.
Download this press release as a pdf For Immediate Release: November 2, 2017 Contact: Jana Morgan, Director – jmorgan@pwypusa.org Mobile 703-795-8542 Office 202-496-1189 Trump Administration Further Erodes US Leadership on Combatting Corruption United States Withdraws from Global Transparency Initiative Washington, D.C. – Today the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced its decision to withdraw from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative…
In a letter dated November 2 and submitted to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Board, a U.S. Department of the Interior official stated: “The United States must withdraw as an EITI Implementing Country.”
IG Report Ignores Industry Actions and Process Challenges That Threaten Transparency Initiative On June 7 and 8, the U.S. Department of the Interior was to host the twentieth meeting of a multi-stakeholder group (MSG) focused on increasing transparency in this country’s oil and mining sector through implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard. Those meetings did not happen….
As civil society members of the U.S. EITI, we are saddened and alarmed that the United States will no longer comply with the standard of a crucial transparency initiative that it has supported since 2003.
This post originally appeared on www.ExtractAFact.org On June 7, Publish What You Pay – United States held the second training workshop on using extractives data and QGIS, an open source GIS mapping application. This time around, we delved deeper into visualizing data, and explored how to calculate a new data point from imported datasets in QGIS. The first training…
On June 7, Publish What You Pay – United States held the second training workshop on using extractives data and QGIS, an open source GIS mapping application. This time around, we delved deeper into visualizing data, and explored how to calculate a new data point from imported datasets in QGIS. Read more on www.extractafact.org